Hcppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
NEW STATE IMPROBABLE.
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
The official plurality of Frederick A.
Basse, as mayor of Chicago, is 12,923.
The United States has joined with
Mexico in a move to stop the Central
American war.
Senator Clark, of Montana, had a
Cl ose call by breaking through the ice
on Trinidad river.
Congressman Townsend, of Michigan,
says he can see no way out of Roosevelt
lunning for a third term.
French seamen threaten to strike and
Spokane Plan Regarded With Amused
Toleration by Conservatives.
Portland, April 9. Though they re
cognize that there has long existed in
certain sections of ihe Inland Umpire
latent dissatisfaction with existing
state boundaries, conservative cithMis
of Oregon, Washington and Idaho are
inclined to regard with amused tolera
tion the Spokane project to create a
new state through the secession of the
disgruntled communities from their
parent common wen It h
Kven in Eastern Washington, wheie
most of the population of Spokane's
new state of Lincoln would be centered,
the sentiment in favor of the creation
of a new commonwealth is bv no means
unanimous. Many conservative eiti
zens are or the belief that the time is
not yet ripe for actual separation, and
even among (hose who indorse the Spo
kane scheme, it is recognized that there
would be serious problems to face were
the present states lo say: "Bless you,
children, go m peace
In large measure, the differences that
have brought about the desire for sep
aration are political, and it cannot be
overlooked that other political jealous
les would spring up to ha the new
state of Lincoln with discord and heart
burnings. Already two Inland Km
'MEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
TO CREATE NEW STATE.
INVOKES REFERENDUM.
Linn County Grangers Hold Up Uni
versity Appropriation.
Albany Tho University of Oregon
appropriation bill is to be referred to
the people. Efforts of Linn county
0 rangers to hold up the university bill
culminated in a meeting of representa
tives of all grange organizations of Linn
county in Albany.
Besides tho Grangers there were in
attendance President P. L. Campbell,
of the university, and Senator M. A.
Miller, member of the board of re
gents of the school. These men pre
sented very strongly the university's
side of the case showing the need of
more money than was appropriated.
The $125,000 carried in the bill was
segregated by President Campbell, who
explained the use to be made of every
REORGANIZE HOSPITAL CORPS
Military Board Holds Session New
Company at Oregon City. ,
Salem The state military board, at
its last meeting, effected a reorganiza
tion of tho hospital corps of the Oregon
National Guard into what will bo
known in the future as the ambulance
company, consisting of 43 non-commissioned
ollicers and men. A new com
pany will be formed at Oregon City to
take the place of the one disbanded.
The Dalles, Oregon City, Ashland,
Roseburg, Albany and Woodburn have
offered land for armory sites provided
for by the appiopriation of $100,000
in house bill 118. No action was taken,
the matter being left to the towns. The
various companies of the state are pay-
; ing an average of $300, per year for the
use of buildings as armories, and Gen
dollar, but the Grangers were obUu- era! Finzer figures that in 20 years the
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raie una m uie ciose ox uie eomereuce state will he repaid the 8100 000 nnrirn-
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uiviueu 10) use me xexeiemuun iu iium , until ion
in event tney do warships will carry pjre cities, if not moie are looking with
green eyes upon Spokane's assumption
the mails that would otherwise be de
laved.
Exposure of bribery by Hearst men
lias caused a row in San Francisco re
form forces but Ileoney will go on just
the same as before.
A last east bound Pennsylvania train
was wrecked near Hudson, Ohio. But
one man was injured. Officials lay the
blame on trainwreckers.
Reports show that 25 persons were
killed and more than t wice that number
njured in the recent tornado in Louis
ana Mississippi and Alabama.
The minister from Salvador to the
United States says the conservative
people of Central America are becom
ing tired of the frequent wars and pre
dicts that a confederacy will be formed.
Carnegie has given an endowment of
$6,000,000 to Carnegie institute.
All railway employes east of the
Mississippi will demand more wages.
Cubans are eager for a decision as to
when the end of intervention will come.
President Joseph Smith says the
Mormon church has abandoned polygamy.
President Bonilla, of
gathering forces to continue the Central
American war.
The amount of coffee being import
ed into the United States is decreasing,
but the importation of cocoa is increasing.
that she is to be the capital of the
new state. The politicians of ths dis
satisfied communities who are now in
power can be depended upon to oppose
from the word go any move that would
impair their influence and drag them
away irem the public crib where they
are now feeding.
the appropriation up until the next
general election, when the people will
letermine the fate of the school.
Put little argument was used in sup
port of the position of the Grange, oth
er than "retrenchment." It was also
decided to have reproduced an editorial
printed in the Oregon inn of Saturday,
February 11, 1905, entitled "Machine
Made Citizens," and scatter thousands
of copies over the state.
HOW TO CURB THE TRUSTS.
National Civic Federation Plans for
Convention in Chicago
New l ork, April 9. The executive
council of the National Civic Federa
tion has decided on Chicago as the
Country Sheep Inspectors.
Pendleton State Sheep Inspector
Lytle has announced the appointment
of eight county sheep inspectors for
Eastern Oregon. Appointments bae
not yet been made for Wheeler, Har
ney, .Lake, Klamath or Gilliam coun
ties. Those named are: Umatilla
very little action was taken on ac
count of the anticipated action of the
Grange in asking that the appropria
tion be submitted to the referendum at
the June election.
place and May 28, 29, 30 and 31 as the t-linty. John Bryant, Pendleton,
dates for holding the national confer- ent incumbent; Wasco, P. J.
ding
ence on combinations and trusts, which
recently was announced by that organ
ization. Representative men from the
various walks of life have signed the
invitations asking the appointment of
delegates by governors and presidents
of the important commercial, manu
facturing, agricultural, labor, economic,
political and law associations. The
purpose of the conference is to consid
er the trust and combination problems,
especially the question of what amend-
Honduras, is i merits, it any, should be made to to the
Merman anti-trust act.
Walsh
Vntelope; Crook, J. A. MeCov, Hay
Creek; Malheur, H. L. Anderson,
Skull Springs; Grant, George Irwin,
Monument, present incumbent; Mor
row, Andrew Cook, lleppner. present
incumbent; Wallowa, J. W. Dale,
Wallowa City, present incumbent;
Baker, A. N. Ingle, Richland, present
incumbent.
May Be Held to Three Inspectors.
Salem State Labor Commissioner
Hoff is in a quandry over adjusting
things to fit the new law, authorizing
him to appoint special deputy inspect
ors of mills, factories and workshops.
He has divided the state into four in
spection districts, but now is afraid the
I revenues from the act, which levies an
annual inspection fee of $10 upon each
factory, mill and workshop in the state
where machinery is used, will not sup-
1 port four inspectors, and he has about
romfl in flirt nnnolnoinn I-U- l. ...III
j . ' ...v. vunvjuioiuii timu ue will
pres-. htlve to divide the stnfo into rV,,, ,i;a
tricts in order to make both ends meet.
IT,- a. 1.1 j t j ...
iiuure mar. me act win pro
duce much more than $10,000 per year chamber of commerce send copies
revenue from this tax, and the inspeet-
i" enuueu to $ per day tor each
, day's actual work together with expense
r allowance of about $4 per day.
GENERAL BARILLAS SLAIN.
Roosevelt is counting on compelling
congress at its next session to pas3 a
reform land law by enforcing present
statutes.
Eight more indictments are coming
for San Francisco telephone men.
Heney has sent a warning to Detwiler
that he had better give up.
England is becoming aware of the
fact that 75 per cent of the canned
goods used in that country come from
the United States unlabeled and that
Pmglish labels are put on by the im
porters. A part of the outer wall of the Vati
can has collapsed.
A denunciation of the czar may cause
dissolution of the douma.
Roosevelt says corporations have con
spired to defeat his policy in 1908.
Thaw has been declared sane, but
Jerome will appeal for a right to see
the evidence.
John A. Lewis has reached Chicago
from Mexico and will at once start the
fight to secure control of Zion City.
Governor Swettenham, of Jamaica,
resigned because he was ordered to
apologize by hiE home government.
The army quartermaster's depart
ment at .Manila is under fire because
the payroll has been found to be pad
ded.
Heney has found that the telephone
companies contributed to both sides m
the campaign of Schmitz for mayor of
San Francisco.
Harriman's lawyers are defending
before the Interstate Commerce com
mittee the right of railroads to water
stock. They also claim rival roads have
a right to combine.
Oklahoma elections gave Republicans
control.
Six men were overcome by gas in a
mine at Lead, S. D.
The Hermann defense has attacked
Hitchcock's methods of conducting the
land office.
Doctors in the Thaw case have dis
agreed, some saying him sane and oth
ers insane.
J. J. mil lias formally retired as
president of the Great Northern and his
ton Louis has assumed control.
All cities and towns of Colorado ex
cept Denver have just held municipal
flections. The liquor question was the
chief one and in a large numtter of
places the temperance people carried
the day.
Ae a result of the city election in St.
Louis the Democrats are in complete
control of every branch of the city gov
ernment. A letter from Harriman to a friend
published in Eastern paper", says
Kooevelt asked him to raise $200,000
f.r the 1904 campaign fund, which he
did. The president says the statement
ie false.
Man Who Might Have Been President
Coldly Slain.
City of Mexico, Arril 9. Manuel
Barrillas, ex-President of Guatemala,
was assassinated here Saturday evening
as he sat in a streetcar. As the car
stopped a young man 17 years of age
climbed aboard and rushed
general and stabbed him
first Plow severing the jugular vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen
erai died instantly, me assassin was
captured. He gave his name as Jose
Estrada, and his home as Ocos, Guate
mala.
Ex-President Barrillas was generally
considered as strongly associated to the
present government of Guatemala. He
was 62 years of age and was a strong
possibility for the next presidency of
the country. Members of the Guate
mala colony here think n-straua was a
paid assassin.
up to the lette valley
twice, the
Students to Fight Sheep Disease.
Corvallis Four Oregon Agricultural
college students are leaving college to
take positions on the government staff
for eradicating sheep diseases in Ore
gon. lliey are G. A. Uodson, Walter
Foster, Edgar W. Donnelly and Henry
Rooper. They receive good salaries and
have their expenses paid. The work
will extend from now to the end of the
summer. Their appointments are re
ceived from the bureau of animal in
dustry at Washington. Dodson, Don
nelly and Foster are to operate in East
ern Oregon and Rooper iu the Willam-
Will Sell Mohair Pool.
Silverton At a meeting of the offi
cers of the Silverton Mohair pool held
in this city it was decided to sell the
pool to the highest bidder on Monday,
April 15. Ihe pool this year is- the
largest ever offered for sale in Silverton
and consists of something over 5.000
fleeces. JIany buyers from different
parts of the state are interested in the
j sale and it is predicted that several wi
I be represented when the product :
turned on the market.
Spokane Chamber of Commerce Be
gins to Boom the Project.
Spokane, Wash., April 8. By mak
ing public today the report of the "new
state committee and annoncning its
adoption by the chamber of commerce,
Secretary L. G. Monroe, of the latter
body, formally launched tho campaign
for tho creation of a new commonwealth
comprising the "Inland Empire," for
which the name "Lincoln" has been
most frequently suggested.
rho report of tho committee, which
was adopted unanimously, consists of a
review of conditions that brought about
what it teims the unnatural arrange
ment of boundaries now existing in the
Northwest, advances rctsons for the
construction of a new stateand suggests
tne loi lowing boundaries should be ap
proximated:
TL nl II. 4 ir 4 1 1 . . ..i .
4X1111, me ioui degree oi latitude, or
the present north line of the state of
Wyoming, extended, be designated as
tho northern boundary of the state of
Idaho, and the 1201 h degree of lontii-
tude, or the eastern boundary of the
state of California, carried noith, until
it intersects the 45th degree of latitude,
be designated as the western boundary
of the state of Idaho, and that tho east
ern California line, carried to British
Columbia, be designated as the eastein
boundary of the state of Washington,
thereby leaving a new state to be here
after named and from which a central
city should be selected as the capital,
comprising the panhandle of Idaho,
Northeastern Oregon and Eastern
Washington.
The report goes on to say:
"This proposition should not come
from any one town or locality, but!
should be brought from all the principal
towns north of the said 45lh degree of
latitude, and, if possible to secure their
consent and approbation, then the mat
ter should be taken to the principal
towns and cities south of the said 45th
degree of latitude, to secure, if possible,
their co-operaticn."
The committee recommended that the
of
TORNADO IN
GULF STATES
Portions of Four Towns Devastated
by Wind Storm.
Insane Asylum at Jackson, Louisiana,
Demolishec Damage is Placed at
$500,000 Storm- 1 raceabla tor
300 Miles in Louisiana, Missis
sippi and Alaban.a.
Offical Notice of Forest Reserve,
balem Governor Chamberlain has
received the three proclamations of the
president, dated March 2, 1907, creat
ing the Tillamook, Umpqua and Co
Commission to Hear Protests. qume iorest reserves. These reserves
Salem At a meeting of the state ! ai) forcer on the i'acihe ocean, com
railroad commission a confeience for niencing at Tillaomok county and run
April 16 was set. to hear the com- mm? south as far as Curry county. The
ALASKANS WELL PLEASED.
plaints filed by the lumbermen along
the line of the Southern Pacific railroad
in this state, in regard to the raising of
rates on rough lumber from $3.10 per
thousand feet to $5, which rate is to go
into effect April 18. Among the con
cerns that have filed complaints are the
Western Oregon Lumber Manufacturers'
association, of Cottage Grove, the Ore
gon cv Washington .Lumber Manufac
turers' association, with offices in Port
land, and the Bioth-Kelly company, of
Eugene.
is about 4,000,000.
reserves
Hundred Divorce Cases on Docket.
Oregon City The April term of the
Circuit court will be convened in this
city Monday, April 15. The number
divorce suits on the docket will ex
of
Governor Hogatt is Not in Favor of
Changing Government.
Seattle, Wash., April 9. W. B.
Hogatt, governor of Alaska, reached
Seattle tonight from Washington.
"We got almost everything we asked
of the last session of congress," he
said. "The people of Alaska are well
satisfied with Uncle Sam's treatment
of them. This cry for a territorial
form of government comes from polit
ical discontents. To have this change
in rule would mean an increase in tax
ation of 25 cents per capita for the
small population. Together with the
fact that the country is only partly de
veloped this burden is not yet warrant
ei. We can very well artoru tc go
along as we are despite the howl of pol
iticians. '
List of Dead is Growing.
Montgomery, Ala., April 9. As
cemmunication is established with the
towns in South and West Alabama that
were storm swept last week, the list of
casualties increases and the loss to
property is shown to be heavy. In
Coffee county the towns of Central City,
Clay Hatchee and Waterford were swept
away and at least 20 persons were in
jured. At Central City a Mr. Odom
was killed in the wreckage of his home.
specials from various parts of Alabama
sav growing cotton has been badly
damaged.
New Insurance Company.
Salem The first domestic corpora
tion ever organized in this state for the
purpose of doing a surety and accident
business insurance has been authorized
by the secretary of state to incorporate
under the laws of the state, proving
that they had available capital to the
amount of $100,000. The Union Guar
antee association is the name of the
new rum which win nave oinces in
Portland. William Glafke in presi
dent and II. D. Wagnon secretary.
Part Payment Stops Limitation.
Salem Holding that payment of
part of a joint obligation by a maker
inereot or py his agent or legal repre
sentative revives it is against all per
sons who are liable thereon, and also
that such payment, however small, is
sufficient to remove the bar of the stat
ute of limitation, the Supreme court,
in an opinion by Justice Moore, af
firms the decision of Judge Burnett.
or tne uircuit court or Marion coun-
ceed those ot any former term, there
being nearly 100 such cases pending
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Prizes for Cover Design.
Poitland At a reccent session of the
board of trustees of the Chamber of
Commerce, the matter of issuing a new
advertising booklet, to be entitled
Oregon," came up, and it was decided
to offer cash prizes of $10, $15 and $25
Nicaraguang have
ilonduran port.
Searching for Coal Barge.
Norfolk, Va., April 9. The naval
tug Potomac left the Norfolk navy yard
today to search for the naval coal barge
with ten men aboard, which broke loose
last week from the collier Caesar,
which had leen towing the barge up
the coast. The barge was lost at sea,
Wing last sighted Thursday. The col
lier Abaranda was to follow the Poto
mac out tonight and it is expected the
crui-er Cleveland will leave the Norfolk
navy ya d early lomnrrow.
for the Itest cover design.
miums will be advertised
competition is opened.
The pre
when the
Farmers Loyil to Varsity.
La Grande The Blue Mountain
Grange at its last meeting resented the
action of the Albany grange in holding
up the appropriation for the State uni
versity. The farmers of this portion of pound; cows, 5(j6c; country
Eastern Oregon are heartily in favor of (Si 7c
Mutton Dressed,
Wheat Club, 7374c; bluestem,
7577c; valley, 7071c; red, 71 72c
Oats No. 1 white, $29.50; gray
$2829.
Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew
ing, $23; rolled, $23.5024 50
Eye $1.451.50 per cwt.
Corn Whole, $25; cracked, $2G per
ton.
Hay Vailey timothy, No. 1, $15
16 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$1718; clover, $9; cheat, $9; grain
hay, ?9 10.
Apples Common, 751.25 per box;
choice, $1.502. .
Vegetables Turnips, $11.25 per
sack; carrots, $11 .25 per sack ; beets,
$1.251.50 per sack; horseradish, 7
c per pounu; caiuinower, fii.oo per
dozen; celery, $4 per crate; lettuce,
head, 3o45c per dozen; onions, 10
12c; per dozen; sprouts, 9c; radish
es, 30c per dozen; asparagus, 14c per
pound; rhubarb, ?1.50l.; per box.
Onions Oregon, $1.201.50 per
hundred.
Potatoes Oregon Bur banks, fancy,
$1.40l.bo; extra fancy, $l.5; No. 1
choice, $1.251.40.
jjuuer rancy creamery, j6(ajc!oc
pound.
Butter Fat First grade cream, 30c
per pound; second grade cream, 2c less
per pound.
Poultry Average old hens, 15c per
pound; mixed chickens, 14c; spring,
fryers and broilers, 2()22c; old
roosters, 1012c; dressed chickens, K,
17c; turkeys, live, 1315c; turkeys,
Iressed, choice, 1820c; geese, live.
8c; ducks, 18c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 18c per
dozen .
Veal Dressed, 58'c per pound.
this report to the various cities inter
ested, placing the matter before the
board of trade, city council, or other
body of like nature, -to the end that
steps be taken looking to the necessary
action by congress.
The report points out thpt the pan
handle of Idaho is cut off from the
south by an impenetrable mountain
barrier, and that the south has domi
nated legislation to the exclusion of the
interests of the panhandle; also that
Similar condition exists in Washing
ton, where the Cascade mountains con
stitute a natural barrier.
it is argued that similar conditions
exist between Eastern and Western Or
egon to even a more marked degree.
New Orleans, La., April 0. Probably
15 lives wore lost today by a tornado
which swept across portions of three
Gulf states and which was traceable for
a distance of 300 miles.' The tornado
moved from west to east over the south
ern extremity of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, and striking into Alabama for a
snort dishi nee. Portions of four towns
were destroyed, and damage approxi
mating $500,000 was done.
Ihe tornado began at Alexandria,
a., soon after 1 o'clock yesterday
morning, instantly killing four persons
there, fatally injuring three and seri
ously wounding 13 others.
Soon after daylight it reached the
Mississippi river, killing four persons
at Jackson, ljx., while at Hay on Sara,
Iji., at least half a dozen others were
killed. There was one fatal injury at
Jackson.
The tornado next appeared at Car
son, iUiss., where great property dam
age was done. About noon near Selnia,
Ala., the inhabitants saw the clouds
rise into the air and the storm disap
peared. The insane asylum at Jackson, La.,
was almost wholly -wrecked, with a loss
of about $200,000. In addition to three
female inmates killed many sustained
injuries. Two negroes were killed on n
nearby plantation. Reports from the
surrounding country indicated that
there was probably more loss of life
among the negroes, wfrose flimsy cabins
piickly collapsed before the wind.
HONOR MEMORIAL DAY.
WORST YET TO COME.
Chinese Famine Drives People to Dig
Up and Eat Dead.
Washington, April 8. To correct an
erroneous report that has found general
circulation with harmful results, the
Red Cross has issued the following
statement in regard to the Chinese fam
ine:
l-rl. e ' yil
xiie ramine in inina is unprece
dented in severity, and the period of
greatest agony is yet to come. Many
weeks must pass before there will be
relief from new crops, and millions to
day are kept alive only through the
contributions to the American mission
and Red Cross society from the Ameri
can people who sent their donations . to
Washington. These two great organ i
zationg are working together for the
common cause and have furnished over
two-thirds of all relief supplies sent ( to
China.
The following cablegram, received
by the editor of the Christian Herald
from the editor of the North China
News, terrible as it may seem, speaks
only the truth:
Shanghai, April 6. Klcpsch, New
York. Approaching peiiod of severest
pinch. Authentic instances of corpses
exhumed, canibalism. Foreign relief
working effectively, maintaining whoje
districts until harvest.'
"When a people have been reduced
to such straits that they will dig up
and eat their own dead, the severity
and wide extent of the famine can be
realized."
Commander-in-Chief of Grand Army
Issues Proclamation.
Zanesville, O., April G. Commander-in-chief
Brown, of the Gand Army
of the Republic, today issued hi
Memorial Day proclamation, of which
the lollowing is a summary:
On Thursday, May 30, will occur the
annual ceremony of garlanding the
graves of the dead, and the commander-in-chief
calls upon the posts to see that
the last resting place of every Union
soldier, sailor or marine in their re
spective localities is fittingly decorated.
Wherever practicable, public com
memorative services of the heroism of
the dead should be held at some central
point.
Department commanders are charged
with the duty of patriotic instruction
in the public schools insofar as the co
operation of the school authorities can
be secured. Let Friday, May 24, or
the last day preceding Memorial Day,
be set aside for this laudable purpose.
In accordance with a time-honored
custom, each post will attend divine
service in a body on Sunday, May, 2(5,
to render praise and thanksgiving unt.-v
the (iod of nations for the manifold
blessings of the past and the undis
turbed enjoyment of the fruits of an
enduring peace won by the Union aims.
CZAR TO ABDICATE.
Scurvy Follows Trail of Famine.
C'L Tl .4. I 4 J 1 t r
ri. x eiersuurg, prii rc. curvy is
making great strides in the famine dis
tricts. The official reports for the sec
ond fortnight of March show 1,055
cases in Ufa province, and ?I7 in Sara
tov, compared with 438 in Ufa the first
fortnight of March and 35(5 in Saratov
province during the same period.
There has been a slight decrease in the
spread of typhus. The project to trans
fer the famine relief from the govern
ment to the Zemstvos has lieen approv
ed by the cabinet and will be eubmit
ted to parliament.
Beef Dressed bulls, .'l3c per
steers, G
Mormons Aid the Chinese.
Salt Lake, April 9. Twenty tons of
flour w re voted for t he relief of the
"hiree famine sufferers at the 7th
captured another Mo-moncorfe-er.ee today. The flour
will be tak n from the tithing stores.
helping in every possible way the state
institutions of learning and especially
.U.. .1..
uie tiaie university
Asylum Board Buys Land.
Salem The state asylum Ixiard has
paid over $10,000 to Charles Riley and
his wife and the deed is recorded cover
ing 23 acres and a fraction adjoining
the asylum grounds, which was pur
chased by the board recently.
fancy, 1010!2'e
per pound, ordinary, 89c; spring
lambs, 12213c.
Pork Dressed, fi9c per round.
Hops 8Hc per pound, according
to quality.
' Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1318c per pound, according totdirink
age; valley, 2023c, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2829c per
pound.
Pleads Guilty lo Rebating.
Minneapolis, April 8. Agreeing to
a stipulation of facts on 15 counts, in
volving illegal rebates, the Great North
ern milrond was t xlay found guilty and
fined $15,000 by Judge Page Morris in
(be Fedeial District court. This hand
ing of the cii-e i to facilitate an
ippeal liv the tailtoad upon the tpies
lion whe;hei- it jg possible to bring
roeiitioii.s under the F.lkins law on
barge. which 1 fcnd.int alleges are
ivtred in Oi- vew Ib j burn law.
Will Appoint Grand Duke Michael Re
gent for Infant Czarevitch.
London, April G. The Daily Mirror
claims to be in a position to announce
upon the "highest authority" that the
emperor of Russia purposes to abdicate
within a month and that Grand Duke-
Michael will be appointed regent dur
ing the infancy of the czarevitch. F'or
the past three or four weeks, the paper
says, events have been proceeding in
this direction with lightning like ra
pidity in St. Petersburg, but the secret
has been well kept.
Lately," pays the paper, "the em
peror's mind has given way even more-
ompletely, and he has shown himself
incapable of performing the smallest
duties of his rank."
Warrants for Trainmen.
Col ton, Cal., April (5. Coroner Van
Wie today swore out warrants for the
arrest of the employes of the Southern
Pacific who were held resonsible for
the wreck on March 28, in which 25
people were killed and 75 injured. The
following are the names of the men
against whom warrants were issued:
L. R. Alvord, foreman of the sw itching
crew; J. G. Crusemeyer, switchman,
Clarence Warminfgton, engineer. The
complaints charge them with causing
the death of II. F. Walthers, of Sacra
mento, who was among the killed.
Coxe, Plans Ano her Cruside.
New York, April 8. The Herald this
nor n ing says Jacob SechW Coxey,
oiimiander-in chit f of the Coxey army,
s planning another great national cru
ade on new and sensational lines, and
he may commence operations this year.
Road Got Mineral Land.
Reno, Nev., April (5. The depart
ment of the Interior is to sue the South
ern Pacific company at once to cancel
all patents issued to the railroad in tho
White Horse mining district on the
claim that the land was agricultural.
It is now alleged that the land for
which the railroad received patents was
mineral. The White Horse district
has developed into a great producing
district and the action will affect lands
worth millions of dollars for mining.
Tax Collector Shrt $40,000.
New Orleans, April G. As a result
of an examination of the accounts of
Ferdinand Hudeiiheifer, state tax col
lector, it was announced today that
there was a shortage of over $40,000